Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Arielen]

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

[Jagick]

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

[Arielen]

Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

Apartments aren't a problem on any server except the top percentile ones like Balmung and Gilgamesh, so I feel like 90 days is too short, but a demo every 2 years moving forward probably wouldn't be too bad. When Ishgard housing comes in, it'll be getting another 24 wards and subwards worth of apartments. With demo every 2 years even the biggest servers should (probably) be fine. Part of the incentive of apartments is that you have them forever, I just feel like people who haven't played in years probably aren't going to come back anyway.